Activity: Book / Children diary
Day nursery: child Lara 10 months
(Lara is too young to have any aims and objectives)
Kindergarden: child Sean & Francis (twins) 4 years
Social skills
- Describes self or others by looking at the photos or showing them
- Child evaluates and takes pleasure in own ability to perform skillfully
- Child can see photos of a conflict situation (in which they were involved) and can reflect it with the other children or the teacher
- He can learn to concentrate and develop initiative, engagement and persistence
- Learns to tidy his “work place” after making the craft
- Describes self and others in terms of preferences
Language skills
- child learns to use language in conversations
- child can express himself through language
- child can explain his day and himself in a creative way
- talking about the process of making the book
- books are a good way to support the development of language skills
Psycho-motor skills
- he can use materials which supports hand skills
- he can put different things together to create new things and shapes
- he can draw pictures with different colouring materials
- he can fold different things
- he can learn to glue properly
- he can learn to use scissors
Personal care routines
- learns to wash his hands after doing a craft
Cognitive skills
- learns to be careful with glue, scissors, paint etc.
- concepts of print
Activity: Recipe
Socio-emotional skills
- child learns to interact positively with a number of children
- learns to help younger children / and learn from older children
- child learns to interact with the adult who leads the activity
- child learns to follow increasingly complex instructions
Psycho-Motor skills
- child learns to use the cooking materials and kitchen tools properly
- child learns the “hand-eye-coordination”
Language skills
- child learns to name the kitchen utensils
- child learns more words
Cognitive skills
- child learns the measure and weight scales
- child learns to distinguish between different tastes by trying the recipe ingredients
- child learns that some foods have different components (and are not growing on trees)
- child learns that food is necessary to survive
- child learns that to cook food sometimes the ingredients must be put together with a specific order
- child can learn the different food from other countries
Personal care routine
- child can learn more about different food qualities (healthy food and not so healthy food)
- child can learn the importance of cleanliness whilst cooking
- child learns to wash his hands before and after cooking
Activity: the Comenius Song
Socio-emotional skills
- child has a positive group experience
- child can communicate that he enjoys himself
- child can communicate different emotions through song
Psycho-Motor skills
- child learns specific moves
- child learns to combine different body parts
- general good training for motor skills
Language skills
- Child learns new words easier
- child learns a new language
Cognitive skills
- child learns to combine singing, moving and language
- child learns about the different traditions in other countries
Activity: The game “ I´m the little cat - Ich bin die kleine Katze”
Socio-emotional skills
- child can learn to play in / as a part of a group
- child can learn to communicate with the children
- child can develop friendships
- learn to build cooperative play with other children
- awareness of diversity amongst animals/ other children
- shared use of personal space
- classification
Psycho-Motor skills
- child can learn to combine dancing with the rules of a game
- child can learn to imitate animals physical movements
- balancing skills
Language skills
- through a song children can learn hard words easier
- child can learn to make different sounds
- phonological awareness
Cognitive skills
- child can learn to follow the rules of a game
- child can learn to remember rhymes, rhythms and lyrics and use them in future play
